Coiffure control



1957 R. H. NITKIN 2,815,031

COIFFURE CONTRQL Filed Feb. 11 1957 IN V EN TOR. E N A4 MT/nw atent Ofiice 2,815,031 Patented Dec. 3, 1957 COIFFURE CONTROL Reuben H. Nitkin, Eroolriine, Mass. Application February 11, 1957, Serial No. 639,448 2 Claims. ((31. 132-49) This invention relates to the control of dressed and groomed hair, and particularly to the maintenance of the configurations (waves, curls, swirls, and the like) of the dressed hair against the deranging effects accompanying and associated with the practice of resting the head on a pillow or similar non-rigid support, as is the common custom while sleeping.

The invention provides a method and means tending to cause the entire hair mass to move as a unitary ensemble Whenever the sleeping or reclining possessor of the hair turns his or her head, or executes any of the tossing or shifting maneuvers that commonly occur at more or less frequent intervals as a person sleeps.

The invention further provides a method and means whereby such unitary movement of the hair mass is of the same extent and in the same direction as the movement of the persons head, with the result that the various segments of the hair pattern maintain their pre-set contours and attitudes in relation to adjacent components of the complete ensemble, thus avoiding derangement and disarray.

For many years women desiring to preserve the orderliness of a newly arranged coiifure have encased their hair in open-mesh retaining nets prior to retiring for their nightly slumber, or prior to reclining on a pillow or similarly yielding support. Users of conventional hair nets have discovered, to their dismay, that a simple net of such conventional design is not effective to prevent relative displacement as between adjacent sectors of the hair ensemble; hence after repeated tossing and turning of the head against a partially yielding and partially holding support, such as a pillow, the preset relationships between individual sectors of the coilfure, on the one hand, and individual sectors of the retaining net, on the other, no longer prevail. Instead of preserving the original decor, the style, motif and format of the coiifure undergo gradual deterioration as the continued activity of the head of the sleeping person produces progressively more of the random, indiscriminate type of relative motion between adj a cent sectors of the hair pattern.

The present invention corrects the above-described inadequacy of the conventional hair net by interposing between the hair ensemble and the head-supporting pillow a traction-relieving element which operates to free all seetors of the hair mass from the restraining influence that is otherwise non-uniformly exerted by the supporting pillow. In consequence of this uniform and over-all relief .of traction, as between the pillow and the hair, it follows that each time the head shifts in relation to the pillow the entire hair ensemble shifts in coincident harmony and uniformity therewith, thus preserving the pre-set pattern.

Other attributes, purposes, and effects of the invention will be apparent upon reference to the following further description thereof in terms applicable to the illustrative embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings depicting an assembly of parts facilitating practice of the invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view in profile of an assembly embodying the invention, with the component parts shown in fragmentary fashion to clarify the relationships;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the assembly of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same assembly, with the outer net component displaced from its normal position of closely over-lying the central fabric, to clarify the structure.

The illustrated assembly has three major parts, namely, inner net 5, outer net 7, and the traction-relieving element 6 lying between the nets 5 and 7, and co-extensive therewith. Nets 5 and 7 may be of the conventional open-mesh construction, with the constituent threads interlocked at intervals to form the pattern of the mesh, and with reinforced peripheral edges 8 and 9, respectively, stitched or otherwise secured to the correspondingly dimensioned peripheral margin of the interposed tractionrelieving element 6. Element 6 may be a continuous sheet of smooth-surfaced material such as silk, nylon, paper, .or equivalent fabric having the necessary tensile strength and smoothness to hold the assembly intact while permit- ,ting free movement of the entire hair mass in frictionless fashion along its inner surface as the wearers head shifts in relation to a supporting pillow, mattress, or the like.

If desired, the sheet 6 may be perforated, slitted, or otherwise contoured at intervals along its area to accommodate individual features of hair styles or patterns.

It is to be understood that the peripheral cords 8 and 9 of the nets 5 and 7, respectively, are of a material having sufiicient elasticity to facilitate stretching the assembly over the hair mass, after which operation the cords contract to hold the assembly in place, in substantially the same way in which a conventional single net is held in place about the hair of the wearer.

What I claim is:

l. The method of controlling a mass of hair that has been treated to assume a selected contour and configuration, which method comprises the steps of encasing said hair mass in an open-mesh netting, and covering said netting with a traction-relieving material to facilitate free movement of the hair mass and netting within said material in a substantially frictionless fashion, independently of any movement of said material.

2. in a hair protecting device, a pair of open-mesh nets having mating peripheral edges, and a sheet of smoothsurfaced material interposed betweeen said nets, said peripheral edges being secured thereto.

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